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Christer Enfors
Christer Enfors @ Enfors @lemm.ee
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  • Well... the type of stuff we long for are still around, it's just that we don't visit it as much anymore. Lemmy is a perfect example of this - it's around, it's better, but people still default to Reddit instead.

  • That's because they're trying their best to ignore and silence him to death.

  • I.... I thought a middle manager is any manager who's not the very lowest manager, and not the CEO? As in, any manager who has managers above and below them?

  • No, I did not have to learn that the hard way. I could have learned it another way. You're objectively wrong. And you don't always have a backup. Especially not back in 1995, when this happened. Back then, backups typically happened nightly. So even with a backup, I would still have lost a day's worth of work.

  • I fell for a similar (but less) obvious joke on my first Linux installation back in 1995. That one used dd instead of rm. I lost a lot of code that I had written. After that, I've failed to see the humor in this kind of joke. There's always the risk that someone new doesn't understand it's a joke, and tries it out.

  • They didn't say scientists are the first target, they said scientists are usually the first target. Didn't say that they were the first target in this case.

  • I'm assuming he threatened her as she was going into or coming out of the restroom.

  • Calm yourself, man. You seem a little bit emotional there. How on earth do you presume to know my political affiliations when you don't even know which side of the fucking planet I'm on? Get a grip.

  • Where do they say that they want microphones listening to people? Just because someone doesn't like some ways of talking, doesn't mean that they want 1984-style surveillance of everyone.

  • Unbelievably enough, it might end up being the rich people in the US who end up saving us all, by deposing Trump because he fucks up their bottom line.

  • "Lalaland" gets my vote, given that they have completely lost any sense of reality.

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  • What you're saying is true, but we must also remember that construction is always slower than destruction. What this means is that slow, steady improvements are not newsworthy - and thus gets no airtime - compared to destruction which happens over night and is thus newsworthy.

    So there is also a lot of slow, steady improvements going on in the world that we never hear about. There's not enough of it, I don't think, to offset the big evils of greed, climate change, and fake news. But it is there, and we must not forget it.

  • Yes, and the same goes for "medium": one medium, several media. When people say "media" now, they typically mean what used to be referred to as "mass media", that is, newspapers, TV, etc.

  • I think you're taking this a bit more seriously than it's intended to be, but yeah, there have been Democrat presidents, but there still isn't gun control, univseral healthcare (not even for children!), etc.

  • If the republicans win, it goes further right. If the democrats win, it stays where it is. So the only movement is to the right, never left.

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  • Well, at least in our case, it wasn't something that we bought. I'm pretty sure it came with our MS-DOS.

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  • That was it, yes.

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  • I figured it out - it was memmaker. It automatically edited autoexec.bat (and possibly also config.sys, I'm not sure).

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  • That might have been one way of doing it, but I seem to remember a more mnemonic name - something like "memmaker," perhaps?

    Edit: Yep, it was memmaker.

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  • I was talking to a friend just the other day about that. I remember some application we used to reconfigure autoexec.bat to optimize it for one type of memory or the other, but I can't remember the name of the application (I think it came with the OS), and I can't remember what the different memory types were called either.